salvador in all these places where israel backed up the u.s. provided arms to u.s. backed dictators etc and in that context. the work of pro israeli lobbies the traditional jewish lobby the newer christian zionist lobby has all of that influence began to to join it intersected with the strategic value that israel was starting to have for the pentagon for the congress so you have this intersection of the political in the strategic then when the cold war is over all of a sudden the political part remains and it becomes very hard to sort of say well israel is just one more ally that we should change how we relate to it now because it's a different world it is shaping it's all part of shaping the narrative but i wanted to go back to something that you just said in an excellent article that you just wrote in the nation you said in reference to rockets from gaza in israel using force to resist and is illegal military force in the context of a belligerent military occupation is lawful under international law can you elaborate more specifically. in yea